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For an aspiring Magento developer or a struggling magneto developer this article is dedicated to the sleepless nights you have spent on working on Magento ecommerce development.

• Always follow The official Twitter account from Magento Commerce by Varien from Los Angeles, California.
  
  
• How to extend an existing class to add new functionality to satisfy a specific requirement in Magento:
  
  Ans: There are 4 basic steps in the process:
  
  • Create a PHP file for the extended class in the /local code repository
  • Create an XML file to let Magento know about this extended class
  • Create a PHP template to utilize the output of the extended class
  • Modify the XML layout files to bring in the new template
    
    
• For a magento developer that wants to display subcategories in the main body of a category page rather than them being restricted solely to the navigation bar.
  
  

Ans:        * 1. Upload this page to your installation at:

               *              /app/design/frontend/[INTERFACE]/[THEME]/template/catalog/navigation/custom-category.phtml

               *

               * 2. Enter the following code in a static block:

               *                             {{block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.navigation" template="catalog/navigation/custom-category.phtml"}}

               *

               * 3. Select the static block as the content source for the categories you require

               *

               * 4. Create new CSS styles as required

               *

               **/

?>

<?php $_categories=$this->getCurrentChildCategories() ?>

<?php if($_categories->count()): ?>

<ul class="category-links">       

               <?php foreach ($_categories as $_category): ?>

        <?php if($_category->getIsActive()): ?>

        <li class="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_category->getUrlKey()) ?>">

           <a href="<?php echo $this->getCategoryUrl($_category) ?>">

              <?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_category->getName()) ?>

           </a>

        </li>

        <?php endif; ?>

    <?php endforeach ?>

</ul>

<? endif; ?>

• A custom module that will allow user to browse products by attribute options and categories.

Ans: app/code/local/MageDev/Filter - location of filter module files

app/code/local/MageDev/Filter/etc - config data

app/code/local/MageDev/Filter/controllers - custom controllers

app/code/local/Block - here goes blocks logic

app/code/local/Helper - general functionality

• For setting redirection anywhere in Magento code.

 Ans: Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('customer/account/login'));

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  For Writing custom write custom query

Ans: 

01 <?php

02 // For Read

03

04 // fetch read database connection that is used in Mage_Core module

05 $read= Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_read');

06 $value=$read->query("SE...");

07 $row = $value->fetch();

08

09 print_r($row); // As Array

10

11 // For Write

12

13 // fetch write database connection that is used in Mage_Core module

14 $write = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_write');

15

16 // now $write is an instance of Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract

17 $write->query("insert into tablename values ('aaa','bbb','ccc')");

18

19 ?>

 I strongly suggest all the Magento developers that you keep this article a hush hush!

Labels: developer, Development, Magento

There has been a considerable rise in need for Magento Development over the span of 2 years especially after Magento being declared as the King of Ecommerce Shopping Cart .Magento development companies and freelance Magento developers all over the World are specially hiring and training their best of developers to get more Skilled and Proficient in Magento development. It is now officially announced by Varian that there are over 30,000 Magento development companies offering various Magento development services that helps in bring in more than 30 billion transactions.Looking at the Google trends there is a constant hike in users surfing the net for Magento Development Service related information and companies that offers Magento development.

Let’s talk about India, which is still a popular destination for USA, Europe, Canada and UK to outsource and seek offshore developers, there are more than 45,000 companies that offer Magento Shopping Cart Development. Considering the various options available for choosing a Magento development company in India for your magento Ecommerce development you can easily buy a premium edition of Magento available and cover the extra cost by hiring an Expert Magento developer from India at less than half of what a Magento developer from USA or UK would demand. Hiring a professional Magento developer India has become a very popular form of business Model for many Magento development companies worldwide.

In 6-7 months time it is estimated that to find a professional magento development company or a freelance Magento developer in your neighborhood would be as easy as dialing for a cab. With over 1.5 million Downloads and over 1,700 Extensions available in the market Magento development has become a major source for companies to earn revenue and showcase their work to their ever increasing magento clientele. However, contacting Magento development company is easy but to choose an Expert Magento developer is tough and a tricky matter. Since Magento keeps on updating itself, developers need to be updated and have strong coding skills to match the continuous upgradations.

Keeping this in mind many Magento development companies have created Magento development labs in their office premise giving continuous training session for over 1,700 extensions that are available in the market. To keep abreast with competition companies have not only made their Zend developers more skilled but also developed custom magento modules to attract clients with special Magento Shopping Cart Development needs. On the other hand there are various Magento developers that work freelance and are committed to nurture the growth of the Magento community, building strong and lasting partnerships and continue in developing and improving on Magento.

To add more the new Magento Solution Partner program was announced in April targeting larger, established ecommerce specialized companies, capable of expanding awareness and adoption of Magento around the globe. More than 40 partners of Varian offering Magneto Development services were responsible for delivering 100+ Magento Enterprise Edition based projects in the first few months since launching the Enterprise Edition subscription in April.

A rise in number of companies offering Magento development services over the world is a contributing factor to Magneto’s popularity and reciprocatory to the rise in Magento development demand arising in the global market.

Labels: developer, Development, Ecommerce, Magento, php shopping cart, services

The Christmas is on the way but haven’t figured out which Shopping cart to use? Well you have been rescued and your SOS signal being heard. We at Zaptech cater to clients just like you to help you launch your very own ecommerce website.

We have established ourselves as a reputable ecommerce developers and have been in ecommerce business for quite a while to know its in’s and Out’s . Let our Ecommerce consultant assist you!

What’s Unique about zaptech is that we will complete your Ecommerce website in 7 Working days be it in Zen cart, X cart, OScommerce, Volusion, Joomla VirtueMart, Cube cart or any other platform. We have designers and developer that are not only Quick but are Honest and receptive in communication making the Development fast and affordable. Moving on to pricing, we prefer a fixed Project cost and have no hidden fees. The Price of the Project will be decided after a detailed analysis by our Ecommerce Web consultant .Only when we receive your approval for the Price do we begin with the Work. We offer prices that leave no scope for bargaining in short they are too good to resist.

Communication is the key, whether it is your feedback or your Suggestion -we don’t feel ashamed to ask the same question twice if we don’t understand something. So there is a high level of transparency and coordination which we like to involve to execute the Project.

So in short if you are looking for ecommerce Development Company who pays more attention to the Project than you yourself, than choosing zaptech ecommerce web development company is the most sound Business decision you could have ever make.

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• There is An emphasis on improving performance by various methods, especially reducing the number of database queries required for processing pages. 
• Our Zen cart Designers/ Programmers are happy to know that the code has been largely converted to a much more efficient OOP’s structure, which will ultimately end up making future growth much easier.
• Templating has become much simpler, due to removal of complicated PHP blocks that used to make them so hard to follow and  customize.
• Leaner Style sheets.
• Some very easy-to-use admin-side layout controls to make settings to your desired layouts very simple.
• The same override system exists for templates and language files, meaning that those already familiar with that part of the directory structure will find it easy to continue using.
• UTF-8 support is thing of the past now, and the more complicated language files have been simplified and split off into their own for easier management.
• The new version takes advantage of features specific to PHP 5.2 and MySQL 4.1, thus, those are the new minimum requirements for your hosting service to provide in order to run it.
• CURL is also strongly recommended.
• jQuery support added
• New email templating system making it easy to visually configure how both text and HTML emails will appear and many more..

Labels: Customization, designer, developer, Development, php shopping cart, shopping cart, zen cart

Labels: Customization, designer, developer, Development, store design, X-cart

Selling point of any ecommerce store is the look and feel of the website and how user-friendly functionality of the shopping cart software has. With volusion store you will get award winning shopping cart solution by spending a very small amount of monthly fee.

On top of that volusion store is so user friendly that volusion store designer can easily customize the ecommerce website as per the client taste. Volusion hosts everything that a company expects from e-commerce software, it can be product display with images in different sizes or advance search capabilities to sales transactions.

Benefit of Volusion Shopping Cart

Trust me!! With my experience in making shopping cart website I can say Volusion software is 100 percent stand-alone solution for creating web store.

There are key benefits of volusion ecommerce solution:

• Volusion software can be fit into any existing design, a volusion developer can easily integrate, whether it’s a new design or existing ecommerce website needs to be incorporated in the volusion store. So if you have existing ecommerce website and you want to convert to volusion then that is possible with volusion without much pain.
• Volusion software Import and Export functionality allows you to import data from any existing source and you can even export data, edit it and re-import it to your website with just a few simple clicks of your mouse.
• With help of Volusion software it is very easy to integrate new logo, new custom Volusion templates, shopping modules and payment gateways.
• Volusion shopping cart has DESIGNED in such a way that it allows volusion designer a great flexibility in CUSTOMIZATION as well as integration of custom HTML to the ecommerce website.
• Provides Facility of buying merchant accounts and SSL certificates.
• Volusion has the majority of known payment gateways and shipping modules inbuilt which is just a click away.
• The unique ROI tracking system of volusion lets you know where you stand in term of sale from advertising and marketing campaigns.
• Volusion software is well optimized for search engines. URL rewriting is made so simple in volusion that a non technical can also play with this.

Hence I would recommend volusion ecommerce solutions to everyone who thinks “quality is more important not just the presence in the web.”

Volusion is one of the best ecommerce software in the market if you are looking for quality web store design

Labels: Customization, developer, Development, Ecommerce, Shopping Cart, store design, volusion

• How much experience does the web development company have developing PHP based web applications? A decent experience of over 4-5 years should be acceptable
• What enterprise and medium size PHP web applications have been developed by the company? Ask for live sites. Make sure they do not have just a few web apps under their belt
• Client Testimonials and References. Do they have those, talk to the clients mentioned
• What tools do they use in their development environment? See if they use industry standard tools or not. Licenced tools is a good indication sof company investing in right tools for the business
• Are PHP programmers at the company involved with any open source project? This would give a strong indication of company's commitment to PHP
• What revision control and testing tools are being used by the company
• Which version of PHP are they more comfortable with? Adept at both 4.x and 5.x is a good indication of experience and remaining in touch with the latest stuff
• Any frameworks they use for rapid development? If they name a few like CapePHP etc., then that means there is an approach towards minimizing mistakes and switching to standard way of development
• Have they developed N-Tier applications and if yes what did they use as a template engine. Smarty of other names mentioned would give you a good indication of if they ha really worked on this
• What are the work timings
• How will the web developer, web designer or the team communicate with you? If there is a single point of contact in the form of a project manager then it is really good

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Role of a Dedicated PHP Developer Team
An in-house dedicated team of PHP developers is the team in action.

The team offers:

• Fast Development and Deployment of PHP Backed Website
• Effective Solutions on PHP Website Working
• Round the Clock Technical Support
• Regular Updating in Accordance with Latest Technologies

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